Discussion of Main Scenario Roulette

[TaleraRistain]

I'd like to elaborate a bit more regarding the first suggestion I made.
In my opinion, usually the last duty of each expansion/MSQ progression still carries enough story in it, such as (spoiler alert) the Aetherochemical Research Facility (alo almost as lengthy as the current 3 duties in the roulette plus no loot), Baelsar's Wall, Ala Mhigo, the Ghimlyt Dark, Amaurot, the Heroes' Gauntlet, Paglth'an, etc. I personally think these cutscenes also worth watching, in terms of storytelling, and world-building. Why only protect the MSQ experience of the 3 Lv50 duties?
If we have to have unskippable cutscenes, I think if we could expand the roulette to include these content (or maybe include gradually as expansion updates as new players join the game), it could better serve the purpose of protecting the MSQ experience.

Because they're the (now three) instances where there are cutscenes in the middle of the instance. The others you mentioned have their cutscenes before or after the instance. The MSQ cutscenes are something they did in ARR and didn't repeat because they saw how badly it went.

[Supersnow845]

I would support ARF being put in the MSQ roulette then not allowing you to skip the cutscene between lahabrea/igohyorm and ascian prime because that’s like a 5 minute cutscene people often don’t wait for and ARF is also a dungeon that gives no loot

The rest however don’t fit what the MSQ roulette is designed for

[Xelanar]

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I don't feel like they take too long. 20-30 minutes seems fine to me for the amount of EXP I get, or for additional tomestones.
The cap at level 50 also doesn't bother me.

The only reason the MSQ roulette still exists today are the cutscenes. Were it not for those, all 3 dungeons could be integrated into leveling and trial roulettes respectively after the rework. But since they take longer than everything else in those roulettes, leaving them separate is the only reasonable solution.

They should not expand on this though. It's bad design and they learned from it, the MSQ roulette being a constant reminder of why lengthy cutscenes in dungeons are not the geatest of ideas. If they were to expand the MSQ roulette, they would only increase the amount of badly designed, cutscene heavy dungeons from 3 to a bigger number, making the problem worse.

[SalamanderIX]

There's no difference between MSQ and Leveling, both are 4 player dungeons done in the story (MSQ). The only difference is not being able to skip cutscenes.

However not skipping cutscenes is hardly ever proven useful, but a burden endured only for the leveling bonus. Most of the time this roulette will have 0 players who actually had not completed it on that character.

Honestly I'd love for them to remove it by whatever means, it just seems like something to endure for leveling as part of a routine rather than content of interest at all, all the renovations made just made them more boring, but they always were.

[Toutatis]

Honestly I'd love for them to remove it by whatever means, it just seems like something to endure for leveling as part of a routine rather than content of interest at all, all the renovations made just made them more boring, but they always were.

You don’t have to “endure it”. It’s optional. Just don’t do it.

Why do you want to remove it? Because you can’t stop yourself from clicking on it and rather not have the option? Some people don’t mind the cutscenes and are happy with the extra tomes and xp.

[Vinter]

I just put on a podcast in the background when I do dailies and turn off all ingame audio.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I use the cut scene downtime to work on my Gunpla backlog. Or whatever else I happen to be building at the time.



Took a break from working on the Perfect-grade Strike Freedom Gundam to build Bumpy the baby ankylosaurus. Bumpy even comes with veggies to feed him!

[Lady_Silvermoon]

I love MSQ roulette. It's a low stress way to get high rewards and it gives me a chance to learn new jobs by filtering out it's later skills which helps me understand my core rotation when 90 levels of skills are tossed at me all at once. I do it everyday.

[Colt47]

When I think about it, I'm pretty sure SE has done absolutely everything they can to make the MSQ dungeons bareable. The worst situation we all got saddled with was when it was still the older MSQ roulette and we had unskippable cutscenes, which were punctuated by people changing language settings and trying to plow through whatever they could in order to shorten the time everyone was in there.